Shark Cam Surprise! Great Whites Attack in Dramatic Footage

If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like to be attacked by great white sharks, here’s your chance to find out. A team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) captured a lot more than they bargained for when they took their specially-equipped REMUS Shark Cam underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico. Six cameras on the robot record the tense scene as the sharks come sidling in.

“In the clear waters near Guadalupe Island, white sharks lurk in the depths and look for the back-lit silhouette of prey at 100 meters depth,” says Edgar Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, a marine biologist who worked with the WHOI team to study shark behavior. “When they spot a target, they swim up quickly and attack the hind fins or flippers in order to disable it before moving in for the kill.”

“We discovered back in 2008 that the sharks were killing seals in deep waters, but we did not know the exact depth until November 2013 – thanks to the REMUS SharkCam.” The footage was featured on the TV show ‘Jaws Strikes Back’ as part of Shark Week 2014 on the Discovery Channel.

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Wearing The Suit From Edge Of Tomorrow Would Basically Kill You

Those guns… would rip right off those armatures. Weapons, especially heavy weapons, cause a lot of recoil. I mean a lot of recoil. For comparison, I am going to consider the machine gun farthest back to be comparable to the US military’s 240-G.

Do you see the way he is directly behind the weapon with it seated directly in his shoulder? That’s important. The recoil of the weapon is actually supposed to travel through his body so that it doesn’t affect the aiming point and the muzzle. If those move, essentially you are aiming at a completely new point and the only round that mattered was the first. It defeats the purpose of having an automatic weapon. Besides the fact that this weapon, as it seems to be in the movie, could not possibly overcome this engineering defect, it would probably rip itself right off.
Also, Tom Cruise would be deaf.

There’s No Armour

Lets look at that image again. In what is probably the most reminiscently “Saving Private Ryan” battle scene I have ever seen in a sci-fi, there is a complete absence of decent armour. That isn’t true. There was this one guy who went in wearing the “heavy” version that had plating. Of course, he also went into battle completely naked otherwise, so whatever. The point is, that battlefield is horrible and stuff that happens in battles like it involve a lot of sharp, tiny, flying objects. This is called shrapnel and it sucks. Nowadays, we wear a lot of armour made to stop stuff like this across our entire bodies and thicker armour for bullets.

In the movie it appears that Cruise wears a police issue flak jacket, intended to stop small projectiles like 9mm to his chest (vital organs). Well, that’s OK, but it really isn’t a good excuse for battlefield armour.
If you’re interested the US military actually does want to make this into a real thing complete with actual armour… PS, that would make it an Iron Man suit.

That Thing Is So Slow

I really don’t know how to show this because the trailers just don’t show how underwhelming these things are to watch move. When you watch their top speed, you realise that you could outrun them pretty easily. They are pretty good at stamina, but in a battlefield, without being able to move, as in move really damn fast, at just some points… you are going to die and that means a lot to all of us who aren’t trapped in a Groundhogs day from Hell.

The System Lacks Fine Motor Control

After I realised that those hands don’t actually help anything, I really started to wonder how a lot of things got done. They are basically like trying to do everything you need to do on a day to day basis wearing boxing gloves. It really doesn’t make sense. And Emily Blunt holding a sword… yeah, that also wouldn’t work since they aren’t made to improve your grip. There is also a scene where they hotwire a car, without giving spoilers, that should be a lot harder.
Also, I seemed to notice that there is no aiming mechanism at all. Just look and shoot. It’s basically all just shoot from the hip… with no aiming mechanism at all. Don’t know how that works. Maybe it is why they lost every single day, after day, after day, after…
I’m just saying, aiming is kind of a big deal when you don’t have an unlimited amount of ammo. Which reminds me:

You’re Doing it Wrong!

So did you know that this whole technology already exists? Yeah, the exo skeleton that Cruise and Emily Blunt are wearing is based off of an actual thing that Raytheon is building. It’s nowhere near ready, but still… something looks familiar.

But it isn’t made to make a regular “untrained” soldier into a super soldier, at least not the type of car crushing one. It’s made to just make them really strong as in “load bearing”. This is one of the most important images for how this technology will be used.

As a former Lance Corporal in the Marines, I know the truth. They just want this technology so that we can carry more stuff. Honestly, that’s what its going to be for. Expect to see future Marines wearing armour like this packed floor to ceiling with massive “turtlebacks” overflowing with extra ammo, weapons, food and supplies, medical equipment, and probably adult materials. I’m just being honest.
What wasn’t featured at all? Anyone on that battlefield with extra anything. It just simply made no sense. In fact, there is a moment in one scene where Cruise says with manly bravado, “give me more ammo and another battery” (see Advait‘s answer about power). I am sure to non-military this delivered the intended message that, “Oh, he’s growing as a warrior. He’s much more prepared now.” What the rest of us who have ever been in were thinking was much more like, “What the Hell?! You mean you haven’t had full ammunitionthis entire time? You’re a friggin idiot!”
The truth is that in the battlefield of tomorrow there will be a few guys in every squad who are simply caring massive, massive amounts of extra gear like what I am describing.

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Makeup Art by Laura Jenkinson

Wonderful and creative artworks painted on human faces by London based makeup artist Laura Jenkinson.
Lips, mouth, and face transformed with makeup into beloved characters from Disney, Pixar, and other popular animated movies.

Genie

Pumbaa

Olaf

Popeye

Monsters Inc.

Mickey Mouse

Bugs Bunny

Minion from Despicable Me

Alien from Toy Story

Nemo

Dori

Sebastian

Lumiere

Chip Potts

Stewie Griffin

Timon

Mr. Potato Head

Mario

Winnie The Pooh

South Park

Hey Arnold!

SpongeBob SquarePants

Seal

Pluto

Shrek

Stitch

Cow

Tasmanian Devil

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Parrot MiniDrone Jumping Sumo

• Intuitive control via Wi-Fi through smartphone or tablet with Free Flight 3 App (iOS and Android)
• 640 x 480px wide-angle camera to capture, stream and record images and videos
• Up to 2.5 FT vertical and horizontal jumps and 90 and 180 degree turns. 

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IBM Develops TrueNorth Computer Chip That Functions Like Human Brain, Might be Rise of Artificial Intelligence

IBM has just unveiled a futuristic computer chip that is claimed to function like a human brain, called TrueNorth. It's technically the world's first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own. This chip purportedly has one million 'neurons' and "could cram the same power as a super computer into a circuit the size of a postage stamp," says The Daily Mail.

Modern processors have some 1.4 billion transistors and consume up to 140 watts but the new postage samp-sized IBM chip contains 5.4 billion transistors, and uses just 70 milliwatts of power, meaning it is incredibly efficient. That's not all, "TrueNorth will use closely interconnected 'neurons' just like the brain does meaning that it can work proactively to a level not seen before," according to The Daily Mail.

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This is a Cut and Polished Chinga Meteorite

Seen here is a 773 gram polished Chinga meteorite. The quarter-cut specimen was found in Turvinskaya, Russia and has been cut and polished on two sides. The rest of the meteorite retains its natural light brown crust, creating a dramatic contrast. This particular specimen, which was offered by Arizona Skies Meteorites has been sold, but more of this meteorite can be found online.
The Chinga meteorite is an iron meteorite and its total chemical composition is: 82.8% iron, 16.6% nickel, and the rest mostly cobalt and phosphorus. Fragments of the meteorite were found in 1913 by gold diggers in Tuva near the Chinge River after which it is named.

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Selfie Toaster

Innovative toaster designed by Galen Dively burns images and portraits into the side of the bread.
For only $75, you can upload any photo to the Vermont Novelty website and “Selfie Toaster” will be manufactured and delivered to your door.
Now you can finally eat toast with printed face for breakfast.

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